1999 The Lord of the Rings (David Palmer)

Release Date: 1999
Reader: David Palmer
Language: English
Organization: American Printing House for the Blind
Translator: n/a
Copyright: © 1938 Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: n/a
Duration: 53 hours 04 minutes
Unabridged: Yes
Country: USA
Licenced: Yes
Formats: NLS 4-track cassettes, Digital
NLS Book Number: DB47486, DB47487, DB47488

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Produced for the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled service of the Library of Congress. This is a complete reading of the book made purely for eligible members of this special library service and not available for commercial release.

David Palmer was former chair of the Theatre Arts Department at the University of Louisville. He was also an accomplished translator. There is an acting scholarship awarded at U of L in his name. David recorded hundreds of books for APH – he particularly enjoyed narrating horror fiction – before his unexpected death in 2000.

This was the third recording of the Lord of the Rings by the Library of Congress. The initial 1967 reading by Livingston Gilbert on vinyl had been replaced by the 1978 reading by Norman Barrs which was itself replaced by this.

Produced in a bespoke cassette format, listeners required either an NLS authorized ANSI/NISO Z39.86-2002 digital talking book (dtb) player compatible with NLS flash cartridges. Or a BARD password and NLS authorized digital talking book player.